Unless I'm running and yelling, then you really see how crooked my mouth is!

I'm a homebody. I'd rather be in the kitchen cooking than hanging out in a bar.

If you have your mind in the right direction, and your heart is full of the right kind of stuff, you'll succeed and you'll triumph over adversity, over really anything.

You have to pay attention to the work on the page and make it as good as possible because it could be your last.

When your a kid,everybody runs around witha red cape-we all wanted to be SUPERMAN or BATMAN.

I'm tough on the outside and soft on the inside [...] I'm really a shy guy.

My sisters and mom raised me to respect women and open doors for them.

I don't want to impose on anyone else and make anyone else emotional or anything. I tend to quietly cry, kind of turn away.

I think that any good storytelling lends itself to closing a chapter but also knowing that there's a few more volumes beyond that to dream off of.

As an actor it's like, go with whatever excites you as an actor. What are you're going to invest yourself in as a character? What are you going to get into? Have a variety of characters to play.

I love being around people that contribute. It doesn't matter where the good idea comes from. A good idea is a good idea.

While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best.

When (Rube) Waddell had control and some sleep, he was unbeatable.

Free-market capitalism, in the blink of an eye, was gutted and replaced by an oligopoly.

It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all.

The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.

There is time enough for everything in the course of the day if you do but one thing once; but there is not time enough in the year if you will do two things at a time.

Before the invader sound was born, the Universe was silent and shall be again.

I read books, but I do it because I want to - because it's like an escape in my head, like being with you.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.